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Here's a cool picture of the eclipse from the ISS, it looks like it's around the Great Lakes region from the snow on the ground.
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Just in case anyone else ever gets this issue... although I think it'd be really quite rare.

I had an error when starting Elite Observatory in that it sent a dialogue stating that voices from Herald could not be found. This meant all my audio for various events (such as what flora were scanned and distances etc.) wouldn't happen.

After digging, I found a solution. If you enter into the directory %appdata%\ObservatoryCore\ObservatoryHerald and find any file(s) with a size of 0 (zero), delete it/them, close Observatory and restart it. Job's a good 'un.
 
Just in case anyone else ever gets this issue... although I think it'd be really quite rare.

I had an error when starting Elite Observatory in that it sent a dialogue stating that voices from Herald could not be found. This meant all my audio for various events (such as what flora were scanned and distances etc.) wouldn't happen.

After digging, I found a solution. If you enter into the directory %appdata%\ObservatoryCore\ObservatoryHerald and find any file(s) with a size of 0 (zero), delete it/them, close Observatory and restart it. Job's a good 'un.
Did you post this in the offibial Observatory forum post, too? The developers of this tool might want to know about this issue in order to solve it.
 
Did you post this in the offibial Observatory forum post, too? The developers of this tool might want to know about this issue in order to solve it.
No, I didn't. The resolution I posted here had already been mentioned in that forum. I thought I'd share here just for awareness amongst my "What Are you Up To?" chums :D

Incidentally, when I'm out gathering salad, I can't do without my Irish lass giving me information. When Observatory error'd, I thought I'd lost a limb.

@Vithigar Just FYI
 
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The new FSD looks mostly useless to me.

It can go faster in Supercruise, but uses a ton of fuel and heats up your ship like crazy? And has less jump range than normal FSDs? And can't be engineered?

Well I guess I won't be coming back to the bubble to get one.

Maybe there is some synergy with the new, as-yet-unreleased ships. If not, then it seems like a real dud to me.
I think I will find it useful to speed up BGS mission running for supporting my player faction. But not until I can engineer it to reduce the jump range hit. Its not that useful for entering Thargoid Titan systems and evading Thargoid interdictions with such a low jump range. Its a prototype. We may see it get better. Zero value to explorers I think.
 
No, I didn't. The resolution I posted here had already been mentioned in that forum. I thought I'd share here just for awareness amongst my "What Are you Up To?" chums :D

Incidentally, when I'm out gathering salad, I can't do without my Irish lass giving me information. When Observatory error'd, I thought I'd lost a limb.
I see. Definitely a good idea. Cheers.
I can relate to that. Even though I usually have EDCopilot running. But there's definitely something missing when she doesn't tell a joke or informs me if I'm far enough away from the last sample...
 
I think I will find it useful to speed up BGS mission running for supporting my player faction. But not until I can engineer it to reduce the jump range hit. Its not that useful for entering Thargoid Titan systems and evading Thargoid interdictions with such a low jump range. Its a prototype. We may see it get better. Zero value to explorers I think.
Right now, I don't see much use for my endeavours. But I sure hope this drive will get some TLC in the future, as I see possible benefits to this drive if it is developed in the right direction. There's one fear I have, though - that the new ships will be built around the flaws of this new drive and the drive itself doesn't get much love.
 
Again, I put myself through it. Damn you osseus! 😤
That's the exobiologist spirit! I still have 1 scan to go until I'm done on this rock I'm on.

Although I can understand it, I don't condone violence against those plants. It isn't their fault that we find them more often than not on planets where the spots to thrive in are sparse and far apart, even if our DSS tells us otherwise. That's the fault of the manufacturers of those probes who thought it would be a good idea to drastically reduce the overall precision of their probes when retrofitting them to find biosigns as well as geosigns.*


*: I would have had no objection to reducing the precision of marking individual POIs to small spots of color in the area where the POIs had been, slightly larger than the actual area. But if after scanning for some geo- / biosignals almost the entire planet turns blue, even though the actual areas in which the fumaroles / plants are to be found are quite small, we come very close to the border of ridiculousness.
 
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I think I will find it useful to speed up BGS mission running for supporting my player faction. But not until I can engineer it to reduce the jump range hit. Its not that useful for entering Thargoid Titan systems and evading Thargoid interdictions with such a low jump range. Its a prototype. We may see it get better. Zero value to explorers I think.
Once you are being interdicted the overcharged supercruise cannot be activated. So you can prevent interdiction by being fast, but not break free from it once interdiction starts. So the only use case is going fast in supercruise for as long as your fuel and heat sink supply allows. Judging when to stop and not overshoot your destination is hard!
 
Once you are being interdicted the overcharged supercruise cannot be activated. So you can prevent interdiction by being fast, but not break free from it once interdiction starts. So the only use case is going fast in supercruise for as long as your fuel and heat sink supply allows. Judging when to stop and not overshoot your destination is hard!
Yeah, you have to factor in inertia. And it looks like this drive either deactivates or simply overwhelms the Flight Assist computer. From what I have seen so far, it would be best to use it in shorter bursts, like we do with the sublight boost function.
 
Once you are being interdicted the overcharged supercruise cannot be activated. So you can prevent interdiction by being fast, but not break free from it once interdiction starts. So the only use case is going fast in supercruise for as long as your fuel and heat sink supply allows. Judging when to stop and not overshoot your destination is hard!

Yes, it definitely works..! ...a few seconds of this "SC-Afterburner" and i was hurtling past my carrier... it's rather nice to have - use with caution though :]

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Once you are being interdicted the overcharged supercruise cannot be activated. So you can prevent interdiction by being fast, but not break free from it once interdiction starts. So the only use case is going fast in supercruise for as long as your fuel and heat sink supply allows. Judging when to stop and not overshoot your destination is hard!
Where's the fun in that? Sometimes getting interdicted is the best way to pick a fight. :)
 
Yes, it definitely works..! ...a few seconds of this "SC-Afterburner" and i was hurtling past my carrier... it's rather nice to have - use with caution though :]

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Hutton Run in roughly 77mins... :]

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*this is better than the first (and last ;p) time i tried this insanity a few years ago - about 2hrs then iirc ;p
 

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